Recommended Anime of April 2013

It is time to talk about the new series this Spring, wonder how you like it so far. It is actually a season full of surprises, and I have to say that I like most of them. Apart from several well known sereis like Oreimo and Railgun, there are some really good light novel adaptations like RDG: Red Data Girl by P.A. Works and Hataraku Maousama!. Also we have some surprises from few less known original series which turns out to be one of the best of the season, the Kakumeiki Valvrave. If you haven’t started, check out our new Anime guide for the list of new TV Anime airing this Spring.

RDG: Red Data Girl (12 eps)

P.A. Works is the synonym for must watch to me, and the same applies for RDG. Guess we don’t need to mention about the quality since it is top notch of the season. The story starts a bit slow in the first episode, and a small climax in the following episode. It turned out to be too good that I simply cannot stop and checked out the Nico Nico version. Of course, it is one of my favorite of the season.

Date a Live / デート・ア・ライブ (12+1 eps)

Had a hard time to find a proper reason to follow the series but few can be found are nice animation and graphics, other than those, it is just a Harem series with loads of cute girls and a cliche story. However, the cute girls seem outweighed the story and give us some incentives to continue.

This series is generally for female fans and somehow a reverse Harem seems much better than a traditional one, at least our female protagonist is way more powerful in terms of attracting male protagonists. As for the story, it is still bit cliche but still worth checking out.

Quite interested in the series before the airing but now, a bit disappointed, due to the terrible quality of the graphics and guess they spent too much on marketing. The TV Anime simply cannot compare with Haganai.

Devil Survivor 2 The Animation (13 eps)

One of the surprises of the season. The story turns out to be quite good right from the beginning, in a pattern quite similar to Persona series. The series actual reminds me of EVA, and guess lots of you might feel the same.

Shingeki no Kyojin / 進撃の巨人 (26 eps)

Fans seem to love the series, both in Japan and oversea. It is a series of great quality, especially the impact of the Kyojin. However, it is bloodily, and you may not want to follow it if you hate blood. To me, the Kyojin seems too disgusting and prevents me from watching more.

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet / 翠星のガルガンティア (? eps)

This original series attracted tons of attention on Nico Nico, with a extremely high score from fans. The story started to be interesting from the second episode, and somehow reminds me of Waterworld, the movie.

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W / 這いよれ！ニャル子さん W (? eps)

For fans who followed the first season, you may also want to check this out. The story is still, interesting though nonsense. The graphics are much better than the first season, and might worth a position in your watch list if you like casual series.

Mushibugyou / ムシブギョー (24+ eps)

One of the traditional series featuring Samurai, as well as cute girls and some fan services. Nothing from the series really stands out from the crowd but when started to watch it, I started to like it.

Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties / ハヤテのごとく！Cuties (12 eps)

Another cour of the series while the story was originally written by the Manga author and has nothing to do with previous season. It has a random story features different female protagonists in each episode.

Kakumeiki Valvrave / 革命機ヴァルヴレイヴ (12 eps)

When you first listened to the OP, you would know that you should follow it. Then take a look at the casting list, well, you might just know every one of them. The first two episodes turned out to be extremely good, though it surely looks similar to GUNDAM SEED where they hijacked GUNDAMS. There will be around 24 episodes of the series, and the second cour will be aired in this Fall, starting from October 2013.

I strongly suggest “Shingeki no Kyojin”. It’s dark and mature story is backed by excellent directing, and a unique art style. I’m hoping the developers put in the right stuff throughout the series to make this show a real success.

“Gargantia”, a series people must not ignore. It’s staffed by Murata Kazuya (Code Geass, Eureka Seven) and Urobuchi Gen (Fate Zero, Mahou Shoujo Madoka, Psycho-Pass). That should be enough to raise people expectations.

“Hataraku Maou-sama”, another surprisingly well scripted show. I personally didn’t know what to expect of it but for now, it’s pacing and flow is well enough to make it another one of the awesome shows this season.

Too many good shows this season!! Though personally, I hope most if not all do well not to fall off my “awesome to watch” list, since a few do in the past.

BTW, whats with Yamato 2199? Are they airing it back from episode 1 or something? Cause I personally love the show and want more~

1. To Aru Kagaku No Railgun S I freakin’ love the opening theme by fripSide, and I could my blood got pumped up each time I set an A-B repeat on that song. Hope that won’t be much filler inside this arc (but then, I’m expecting fillers)

2. Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) I love the first episode, and I don’t really like the second one because it is still slow and still revolving around the main char’s unstable character… which is kinda sluggish to me.

3. Hataraku Maou-Sama The Gintama for April 2013 anime. seriously.

I trashed Henneko because I couldn’t really grab that anime, and I’m getting Valvrave right now. For DSA2, the plot is kinda sluggish to me. Don’t like the second episode.

Actually! If you replace all robots in Valvrave with Mobile Suits and the main robot with a Gundam then you have yourself a fully fledged Gundam series!! The scenario in episode one is irritatingly similar to Gundam Seed first episode. But yeah, Valvrave was quite lackluster.

Yeah, the MC could use some brains IMO. Tired of the MC’s always being the type who follow only their rage of emotions. But the Heroine! Damn~ they put a lot of extra work to making her look extremely hot!

I kind of disagree, Valvrave was pretty interesting and how the Valvrave moves while in combat is something I haven’t seen before.Plus, I just have to say that despite the similar stealing robot scenario, I think people should ignore it since its not really a detail to focus on but rather it contributes to pacing the story.

For Shingeki no Kyojin, I think its an okay series that is enjoyable and funny that doesn’t make me hyped but its entertaining (though I did learn that Mikasa’s appearance was slightly adapted, with some differences to the manga).

Just some positive criticism here, I realize some people have different things they like to see from anime but if you wanna be get more people interested in your article and therefore these series dont attach a random pretty girl screenshot in every single series i mean you even chose one for “Shingeki no Kyojin” a show where the main draw is the effing titans and how they destroy humanity not some random girl number 5. Personally, if i didn’t even know what “Shingeki no Kyojin” was about and all i had to introduce me to such an amazing anime was this article? I would never even bother … just my 2 cents.